Civil War buff to discuss Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue

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Civil War buff to discuss Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue
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Ron Gorman, of the Oberlin Heritage Center, poses Thursday with a portrait of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescuers who saved runaway slave John Price in 1858. BRUCE BISHOP/CHRONICLE

LORAIN — For 20 years, Civil War buff Ron Gorman said he traveled around the East Coast visiting Civil War sites before realizing one of the most important battles occurred before the war and close to his home.

The battle was for the freedom of John Price, an 18-year-old runaway slave from Kentucky, who was arrested by U.S. marshals in Oberlin in 1858. Price was taken to Wellington to board a train to be returned to Kentucky. Twenty men, known as the Oberlin Rescuers, defied the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and rescued Price from the Wadsworth Tavern in Wellington, now Herrick Library, at 101 Willard Memorial Square.

More: http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/...buff-discuss-oberlin-wellington-slave-rescue/
 
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